Two New Faculty Members to Join the Department

Yang Chen and Jonathan Terhorst will join the department in September 2017.

Yang Chen is expected to complete her PhD in Statistics at Harvard University and will join us as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Research Assistant Professor of MIDAS. Chen’s current research interests are scalable inference for big data and Bayesian computation with applications to biology. Jonathan Terhorst is expected to complete his PhD in Statistics at University of California, Berkeley, and will join us as Assistant Professor of Statistics. He is interested in population genetics, and more generally, developing mathematical models and software for the analysis of large and complex data.